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Cbus wins Investment Stewardship Award

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
... our financial advisory program. We are also gearing up for new products following the introduction of the new super regulations on 1 July," said Grant. Cbus is rated AAA by SelectingSuper. According to SelectingSuper, Cbus returns for its default investment ...

Advice already in client's best interest: FPA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
... of thousands of Australians would be unable to find their way through the maze of tax, investment, super and other regulations, or the many thousands of financial products on offer. The latest war of words between the FPA and industry comes after industry ...

Wealth managers will have difficulty with AML

WWW.THESHEET.COM.AU  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2006
... managers in the wealth management sector. Steve Lock, an English banking technology consultant, said that when AML regulations were introduced in the UK in the mid-1990s wealth managers adopted the attitude that, because they were low risk, AML was not ...

Multiple super accounts wasting billions in fees: CHOICE

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2006
... when it must occur. In a move that will be welcomed by the financial advisers, CHOICE recommends financial advice regulations become more practical to make it easier for advisers to help consumers consolidate their accounts and that an industry wide ...

Borat movie and bank credit demand push Kazakhstan centre stage

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2006
... country is also experiencing rapid credit growth. But in a special report, Kazakhstani Banking System and Prudential Regulations: The Risks of Growth, Fitch Ratings said increasing reliance on foreign funding to fund this growth could pose significant ...

Smart 401(k) plan design boosts their take-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
... ICI. The funds got their name from a special legislative amendment to section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Service regulations that came in effect on 10 November 1981. The ICI said that when the 401(k) regulation was first proposed it was only six ...

Super roll-over promoter to serve time

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2006
... their preserved super could be used to help cover the purchase of a house between February 1998 and July 2001. Super regulations dictate that preserved benefits must be retained until retirement after the age of 55 or pursuant to other limited legislative ...

Symantec turns compliance into revenue

... regulation. In plain speak, it reduces time taken to ensure that the business has 100 per cent policy coverage across regulations. Clayton Utz partner, Barry Dunphy, was also at the briefing to stress how important it is for both the public sector and ...

Simpler super will promote savings: Dutton

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2006
... back to where it started," after the industry itself has created ranges of products that push the edges of how the regulations operate, Dutton said. Case in point is how legacy products designed to deal with super taxation and RBLs should be handled. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2006
... Zealand's share market was energised by the power sector, after the government signalled an easing of electricity price regulations. The benchmark NZX-50 index was up 15.5 points to 3565.36 on a respectable turnover of $NZ119 million ($A97.61 million ...